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The Louisiana Democrat., 1887-06-15
CONVENIENT CRATES,
Directions for Making One Bushel Boxe
for Corn and Potatoes.

directions for Making One Bushol Boxes
for Corn and Potatoes.
For economy of labor in the heavy
work OF harvesting and gathering corn
ears and potatoes one-bushel crates are
very useful. Cut a-inch boards II
inches wide and 12 feet long into 10
pieces IA inches long, II inches wide;
3-inch battens are cut into strips III
inches long; these are nailed to the
endboards with Sd. nails at sides and
bottom so as to form a crate; spaces
of II inches are left between the strips;
two }-inch holes are bored in each
end, about 5 inches apart, and the
wood between these is cut away to
make holes for lifting by. nail short
strip over the hole and bevel the under
edge to make good hold A strip is
nailed across each end of the top of the
box so that when the filled boxes rest
upon each other there is an air
space between them. The boxes are
15t inches long, IA wide and IL deep,
inside measure quite convenient
size), and hold 2,751 cubic inches, and
as $3.50 cubic inches make a heaped
busheL these are bushel measures.
Two of them will fit lengthwise across
36-inch wagon box, "a boxes will fit
into 14-foot box, and two tiers may
be loaded by using top sideboard; 4S
bushels will make a load. Each box
has nearly 81 feet of lumber; 100 boxes
require 20 boards, or 240 feet, and 200
bettens or 800 feet, costing from 81 to
$19, and thus the cost of each box is
from 5 to ~ cents
The stuff may be cut out by one man
and the crates put together by another
man in one day. I put up 100 in less
than 10 hours, and cut out the stuff in
s hours the day before. The potatoes
are picked (sorted at the same time)
into the boxes, loaded and carried into
the root-house Or cellar; a row of
them, full, is set up 4 or 5 feet from
the side of the cellar and an
other the same distance apart,
and thus one may make the
bins for the bulk of the crop, the
spaces in the boxes forming ventilators
for the circulation of air. In market
ing the tubers the boxes serve the same
useful purpose, saving much handling
and avoiding injury by the common
use of a shovel for this work. In
harvesting corn the ears are husked
into the boxes and loaded and emptied
into the crib. 1t is easy to know pre-
cisely the yield Of the crops by the use
of these boxes, and how much is put
away into the roothouse or the corn
crib. When corn is cut up in shocks
of 7x7, or 40 hills each, and each shock
yields bushel box of ears, the crop is
fifty bushels per acre. If two shocks
give three boxes, the yield Is 75 BUSH
els, as 40 is very nearly hundredth OF
4. $40, the number of hills at 3x3 feet to
an acre, and heaped bushel of ears is
about equal to half bushel of corn
Cor, N Y Tribune.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1887-06-15

The beautiful Indian maiden,
thinks writer to the Philadelphia
Press. is generally big, fat, dirty
looking creature, with a blanket
around her that comes to her knees,
bareheaded, with moccasins on that
she generally pulls of when they are
worn out. The blanket is fastened at
the neck and also with belt at the
waist One thing they have, the most
beautiful, pearl-looking teeth.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1887-06-15
1851 TO

1855. 1881. 1855. 1856 [ApT7s 90
Original. 80. 3S 1914 l9Ol35 771l4O $50 "A R,e
Increase and !
miscellaneous1431s 31sI22 539I "a. .615I3S 7oe 40 75s
In the fiscal year Of 1886 there were
also issued 1887 supplemental certifi-
Gates to widows and dependent rel
atives whose pensions had been in
creased by Congressional enactment of
March 10, 1886.
There are thousands Of our COM
rades in Indiana that can testify to the
efficiency Of the present administration
as compared with that of other years.
Washington Cor, Indianapolis Sent
nck
The Louisiana Democrat., 1887-06-15
Taking the Census.

Il have a scheme to make some
money when the next census is taken
in Dakota" said one Sioux Falls man
to another.
what is it?''
why, I'll make q proposition to the
Legislature to take the census of the
towns at about five dollars per town
and make whole barrel of money"
why, you couldn't make cent at
that rate ;"
Couldn't heyp Well, l know could
get rich at it. can take the census OF
town for fifty cents You see I'll
give man half a dollar to hitch up a
sick horse and drive it out on the main
street and let it lie down and then aft
er about five minutes TIL get up on the
wagon and count 'em. "-Dakota Bel1.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1887-06-15

1t is happy thing for us that this
is really all we have to concern our.
selves about-what to do next No
man can do the second thing. he can
Do. the first. George AacDonald,
The Louisiana Democrat., 1887-06-15

DO not walk with your eyes on the
ground; the gravel is apt to wear the
sight of
The Louisiana Democrat., 1887-06-15

~ Why have you no
weather forccastsi I
know they are not very
rel able, but I am inter
|ested In them, and II
you can not, etc.
o. In the name Of
the large number OF
State omciAls among
your subscriber, We
would most earnestly
urge you to devote as
much space to the pub
location Of matters con.
|cerning them - you do
Ito subjects interesting
10 lawyers and military
|men. Or do yOa think
that . watchman 10 less
Ientitled tohsye his pro-
motion publicly an
Inounced than . General
lor an o@ciali
n To - - -
The Louisiana Democrat., 1887-06-15

az You do not sum.
ciently discuss the de-
tails Of political events.
People like myself,
who do not understand
much about politics,
want to form theil
opinion from . newspa
per. II you can not, etc,
a. Hike your paper,
but II you can not, be.
fore long, arrange to
give agricultural news
] shall be obliged, etc.
@.) Knowing youl
courtesy with regard Il
the wishes Of your read
ers, I am convinced tha,
! shall not ask In vair
that you will kindly
publish the details
about the Saxon, Bruins
wick, Hamburg Middle
Park, King Albert ant
Cologne Cathedral lot
teries, as well as thu
prices Of stocks. A
good deal OF ballas-
might DO left out o
your paper to max,
room for these things
Trusting that you viii
The Louisiana Democrat., 1887-06-15
THE POOR EDITOR.

Trials and Trlbulataons OF . widely.Rsad
European Newspaper.
We take the following complaint
from widely-read continental con-
temporary, which gives the public a
few specimens from its daily budget of
letters. For the convenience Of our
readers the letters dealing with the
same subject are placed in parallel
columns:
The Louisiana Democrat., 1887-06-15
|. a. When are you go.
ing TO stop this eternal
subject about The Hoi-
lG0Eteni

subject about The Hof-
gsrteni
4.) My vito uses old
newspapers for clean
Ing windows. Could you
nos arrange to have II
rather softeri
a. Why don't you
leave this local gossip
alone, which nobody
cares to know, and In.
crease the number Of
your foreign CORES
|pondentsf II these
changes Are not mAde,
etc.
~ Why are you d.
ways discussing and
criticising naked factsi
Every educated man
forms hts own judg-
'ment On such mat
tera.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1887-06-15

a. You would oblige
your readers by pub
fishing q few more de.
tails about the laying
out Of the Hofgarten.
(2.) Your paper is 30
soft 1t is impossible to
wrap any thing up In II.
II you can not, etc.
(3.) I am not inter,
ested In your politics.
II you can not give
more room to local mat.
tiers and keep your poll.
tics In decent bounds, ]
shall be obliged, etc.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-09
Mason CITY.

On Thursday evening last, at the residence
of the brides parents, occurred the marriage
of Elmer Van Auken to Miss Lena Willis.
They will make their permanent home at
Rudd.
Misses Maggie and Katie Carin. who have
been visiting with friends in the city. re-
turned to their nome in Whittamore last Fri
day.
Mrs A. Gleason and daughter Miss Sarah,
after spending Ii few social days with friends
at Minneapolis, returned Friday.
The Woman's club meets with Mrs. James
Blythe Tuesday evening. Invitations Will be
extended to gentlemen.
The Misses Stansberg have returned from
Faribault, where they have been attending
the ladies seminary.
Miss Becca Hooks, who has been the guest
of her sister, Miss Lizzie, has returned to her
home in Duluth.
The Misses Dean, nieces of Mrs. d. Nc
Grigor. have departed for their new home IN
Mitchell Oak.
On Saturday evening last Miss Gertie Wash
burn entertained large party of her juve-
nile friends.
The Misses Molt returned home from Farl-
bault last week where they have been attend
ing school.
Miss Anna Purcell, of Lansing, is being
entertained by her cousin, Mrs. K. ii. Greer.
Mrs Christensen has her little niece ana
nephew, from New Hampton, visiting her.
Miss Mary Long returned Thursday from
pleasant visit at Minneapolis.
Miss Jennie Braham has returned from
Milwaukee.
Mrs. Frank Mcclellan is visiting in the city.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-09
Traffic Diverted.

CHICAGO, April S.-Since the prorating
arrangements between the Western and
Eastern lines on freight from the seaboard
to Missouri river and beyond was de-
clared off, the larger portion of that traffic
has been diverted away from Chicago and
through ST. Louis. the rates to Kansas City
being between 2 and 3 cents lower via st.
Louis. 1t is understood that early next
week the Chicago and Kansas City roads
will issue new freight tariff which
will equalize the rates via both cities, and
stop the diversion of traffic from Chicago.
A move is on foot to send on from this city
a protest of leading merchants and ship
pers against the action of the interstate
commission in suspending the operation of
the long and short haul clause at various
points. The special grievance here is the
suspension affecting the route across the
lake from Milwaukee.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-09
RUMBLE OF THE RAILS.
The Manitoba Has Commenced Work on
its Minot Extension to Great Falls
and Helena.
The Survey of the Line From Willmar to
Sioux Falls Completed Ready for
Work.
The Interstate Commissions Make
Their First Clerical Appoint
ment.
How the New Law Affects Jackson.
Developments in the Ticket
Boycott.

The Manitoba load has now an immense
force at Minot at work on the extension OF
that road to Great Falls and Helena. Two
hundred cars of material will be required
day all the season for the prosecution OF
this ,lnequaled feat of railroad building.
The grade has been completed one hundred
miles west of Minot. A good deal OF ma
terial has been sent from Casselton oyer
the Northern Pacific to Bismarck with the
intention of shipping it up the river to Fort
Buford for the purpose of laying the track
from the west. 1t is doubtful if this can be
done, and in case it cannot, three relays of
men are to be engaged laying track from
Minot, using electric lights at night and
laying six to seven miles of rails each TWEEN
ty-four hours. 1t is the intention to have
the cars running from ST. Paul to Helena
over this line before fall.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-09
The wilImar & Sioux Falls.

The surveyors of the Willmar & Sioux
Falls road completed the location of the
line to Sioux Falls, a few days ago. AS
now located the line is one and one-half
miles longer than it was by the preliminary
survey. but the engineer was obliged to
make few changes in order to meet the
requirements of a grade not to exceed
thirty feet to the mile. 1t is probable that
some changes will be made in the line at
Granite Falls, as there is some diSsatisfac-
ton because the line is made to run two
miles from that town. Grading will be be
gun at Willmar in very short time. Sioux
Falls is all ablaze IN regard to the road and
anticipates great advantage to that part OF
town on account of being thus afforded a
direct outlet to Duluth.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-09
Chips From the Ties.

The ties and steel for the Salem extension
to Mitchell, Oak, are moving rapidly to the
front, and track laying was commenced last
Monday, and it is expected that trains will be
running from Worthington to Mitchell by
June l.
The Manitoba and the St. Paul & Duluth
have just published a new tariff on fax seed
grain, flour and millstuffs i'll carload lots to
take effect Immediately, canceling tariff No
35 and all supplementary tariffs, circulars
and special rates.
A new freight tariff has been issued by the
st. Paul & Duluth, to go into effect April Is.
Rates on all classes have been changed. In
most cases reductions have been made. Lum-
Der is reduced.
P. Is. Groat, emigrant agent of the North
ern Pacific, has returned from an extended
trip through Dakota.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-09
TIE SITUATION SERIOUS.
Striking Chicago Carpenters Come in
Contact With the Police.
Shots Fired without Effect, and Some
Arrests Made.

CHICAGO, April S.-The hall of the
striking carpenters on Fifth avenue has
been crowded all day with strikers. A
number Of contractors visited the hall dur
ing the day and sought to engage men to
help them out on important work. Their
appeals were invariably denied. The
strikers declare that they will remain out
until their union is recognized. The car
penters claim that 260 bosses have expressed
Willingness to give in, and that only about
l4O are opposed to the concession. The
carpenters claim that the strike will soon
end. and it is thought that the meeting of
master carpenters to be held at the builders
exchange tomorrow may settle the matter.
only nineteen contractors responded to
the call for mass meeting OF master car
penters this evening. to independently con-
slider the demands of the strikers, although
the latter claimed that 260 bosses were op-
posed to the Master Carpenters assOcia-
ton and had expressed
WILLINGNESS TO GIVE IN.
The session was very short one and re-
suited merely in the contractors present
agreeing to attend another meeting of the
employers of carpenters to be held tO-mor-
row night. Fights between the strikers
and imported carpenters occurred in many
parts of the city to-day. The strikers in
almost every case managed to elude the pO-
lice. Non-uniOn men were compelled to
quit work in number of instances. es-
peclally in the outskirts of the city. Nine
strikers were arrested at the corner of
jackson and Clinton streets, where they
attempted to induce men employed on War
rem Springer's tall structure to quit work.
No violence occurred, and the prisoners
claim their arrest was totally unwarranted.
Shots were exchanged between policemen
and strikers near Humboldt park. "Scabs
were found at work by one of our commit
tees" said President Kliver, of the car
penters' council, They were requested to
quit. Suddenly patrol wagon loaded with
policemen came, and firing began on both
sides. The shots were fired in the air and
nobody was arrested" 1.-THE Knights of
Labor element among the strikers are not
all satisfied with the way matters are being
run by the Carpenters council That
organization is composed Of thirty four
delegates. said prominent Knight this
evening. land only eight of the delegates
are from our assemblies. The Carpenters
brotherhood is boSsing us, but we don't in
tend to submit We are satisfied with the
compromise offer of the bosses, and are
willing to go to work at once" A meeting
of the Knights will be held tomorrow
morning, at which it is possible the strike
will be broken, and great part of the 5000
men Will decide to resume Monday.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-09
FOR SMALL PoCKETBOoKs.
Hints About Selecting Eggs-.vari
GUS WAYS of reDaring Them

Hints About Selecting Eggs--Vari-
Gus Ways of repairing Them.
Everybody knows that an egg to be en-
joyable should be like Caesars wife, above
suspicion" The eggs how in market come,
most of them, from the surrounding coun-
try towns. and often reach this pedestal of
perfection.
They may be easily tested by placing
them in bowl of water, when the good
ones will sink to the bottom and the bad
ones float on top. AS these nutritious edi-
bles are selling for Is and 20 cents dozen,
they should form one of the chief articles
of food.
Almost every housekeeper knows that it
takes exactly three minutes to boil an egg
''sott," five moderately hard and ten min
utes to make it hard enough for salad.
Poached eggs are always good. The secret
of sednng them to the table, the yolks COW
cred with the Whites is very small one.
After the egg is dropped into the pan of
boiling water, take teaspoon and dip up
the water where it bubbles, pouring it over
the yolks. In two or three seconds the
white will completely cover it. A little
salt should be put in the water before the
eggs are dropped in. Omelets are always
lighter for beating the whites and yolkes
separately: and then should be eaten imme.
diately after cooking. Parsley, ham or
cheese chopped fine and added just before
the omelet is put On the fire add to its
flavor.
A new way to prepare eggs is to bake
them. Take pudding dish, cover the bot.
tom with slices of toast soaked in hot water,
buttered and sprinkled with salt; break as
many eggs as needed one by one into a
shallow saucer, taking care not to disturb
the yolks, and put them on the toast Cover
the dish and set in a hot oven. In ten
minutes take off the cover, sprinkle them
with little salt, and drop in few small
pieces of butter; brown for three or four
minutes and serve hot.
Hard boiled eggs chopped to mince,
mixed with mashed potatoes and fried in
small cakes to a crisp, brown, are nice for a
breakfast dish.
A cheap cuStGrd pie is made as follows:
Take two eggs, beat the yolks with one
heaping tablespoonful of white sugar; then
add cup and half of milk and ten drops
of vanilla, or grated nutmeg if liked better.
Make crust out of one cup of pastry flour,
a piece of lard as large as walnut and
twice as much as butter; work them into
the flour; then add enough cold water to
make into dough; roll to about the thick
ness of a quarter of an inch, always rolling
one way; cover the bottom of a well but
tered pie plate with the crust, then pour in
the custard; set OH the bottom of moder-
ate oven. When the cuStard is firm and
just beginning to brown. add the whites of
the eggs whipped stiff with five teaspoon
fuls of sugar; brown and serve either warm
or cold.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-09
A BLOW atthe Grand Trunk.

CHICAGO, April S.-The general pas
senger agent of the Pennsylvania company
has sent private and confidential letter to
the general passenger agents of Western
lines, stating that his road had only temper
arily agreed to the allowance of differential
passenger rates to the weak lines East of
Chicago and st. Louis, and that his COM
pany would claim that any road selling a
through ticket at a rate higher than another
road was guilty of discrimination under the
interstate commerce law. He asks the
views of the Western passenger agents on
the matter. The move is understood to be
one to deprive the Chicago & Grand Trunk
and other lines Of the privilege of making
rate to the seaboard of $1.5O less than
the strong lines as now agreed to.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-09

Mason City and have it in operation, with
trains running, Nov. 1, 1886. The con-
testants claim that, though the company
did run train on the date above, 1t was
partially over track and roadbed impro-
vised for the occasion, and that the road
was not completed for traffic, as proposed
in the agreement, until weeks afterwards.
These are some of the grounds on which it
is claimed that the contest will be made. The
Milwaukee d st. Paul company paid half
the regular tax on the 1st of April, but no
tax for the Fort Dodge railroad. Hamilton
Brown was in the city yesterday and waited
upon the county treasurer and drew upon
the county to the extent of $4,000. which
had been paid into the treasury, and did
appear the least disturbed by the rumors.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-09
CLAIM 1T rs VOID.
Trouble Over a Tax Voted the Ma
son City e. Fort Dodge.
Special to the Globe.

MASON CITY, Ia, April s.-The rumors
that have prevailed for months, that some
of our citizens and corporators represented
here proposed to contest the per cent. tax
voted the Mason City & Fort Dodge rail-
road, assumed tangible shape within the
past few days when a number declined to
pay the quarter of the railroad tax due on
the LIST of April. Mason township voted
the road the tax of 5 per cent. on the valua-
ton of 1886. The tax was voted in Feb
ruary. 1886, before the valuation of that
year had been determined, so representa-
tlves of the contestants claim that the tax
being voted on an undetermined value was
all irregular proceeding and void in law. In
consideration OF the tax the company agreed
to construct the road from Fort Dodge to
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-09
Clinton.

Miss Grace Crouch, daughter of Mayor
Crouch, of De Witt, accompanied her father
to this city Wednesday morning and will re-
main until Saturday the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. a. Howat.
Mrs. d. w. Rooms and two children, who
have been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Rooms
at their Seventh avenue home, left Thursday
evening for their own home at Salida, Col.
Mrs. Eugene Scott Blocker and Mrs. j. l..
Rumery had numbers on the G. A. r. camp
fire programme Wednesday evening.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-09
Cedar lRapids.

Mrs. Kidder, of the conservatory of music
1t Cornell college, and Miss Belle Hanna, one
Of the instructors. were in the city this week
Dbl their way to Mt. Vernon from Vinton.
Miss Bradbury, one of Cornells prominent
students, was in attendance at the organ
concert at the Baptist church.
MISS Daisy Chesley, of Independence who
mas been visiting MISS Regina Sales, has re-
turned home.
Mrs. Grist, who has been in Decatur, is
visiting her son in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Laing have returned
from ST. Louis.
Mrs. c. D. Van vechten left Wednesday
for the North.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-09
Greene.

Misses Mary and Dell Kennedy, of Clarks-
vile, visited couple of days with their
cousin, Miss Ollie Reed, and other relatives
last week.
Miss Carrie Speaker, of Shell Rock. has
been visiting for few days with her sister,
Mrs J. F. Cole.
Mrs. DR.. E. L. Thorp, of Shell Rock, visited
her sister, Mrs. B. P. Scott, several days last
week.
Mrs Rowray went to Cedar Rapids last
week to visit her daughter, Belle.
Mrs. w. F. Ellis went to Manley junction
Tuesday on a visit.
Miss Carrie Leeman is at home on short
visit.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-09
The Michigan Vote.

DETROIT, April S.-From all reports re-
ceived the Evening Journal now figures the
majority against prohibition at 1876. The
more complete returns in most cases cut
down the Prohibition vote. In this
lWayne) county the majority against the
amendment was %, 344, being an increase
of several hundred over former reports.
There is now no doubt that the prohibition
amendment has been defeated.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-09
The Cotton Handlers, Strike.

New ORLEANS. April S.-The strike of
the cotton handlers still continues. but
conference of all the parties will be held
tomorrow with view to adjusting the
troubles existing between the new and old
councils. At a meeting to-day of delegates
from all the organizations composing the
two cotton councils. the old council (col-
oredl demanded that half of all the work
done in this city by cotton handlers be
given to colored men. This demand was
not accented